Ravindra Kishore was born in Patna in 1951 to Suraj Prasad Sinha and Annapoorna Sinha. Suraj Prasad was a promising government official, erudite, fluent in English and well versed in the Vedas. He had topped the entrance exams, and got a posting in the coveted commercial taxes department. Coveted because an official could easily supplement his official income with some help under the table. Just that Suraj Prasad was not one of those. In fact, he abhorred it. He would constantly write to the chief secretary of the state, requesting a transfer. ‘This is a very corrupt department and I can’t sustain myself in this kind of atmosphere,’ he wrote.

As it happened, Bindeshwari Prasad Verma, the first speaker of Bihar’s assembly in independent India, was translating the Bhagavad Gita into English

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